Since we have returned home from Addis, we have found that we are seeing some things with different eyes. I guess its part of the reverse culture shock.<\/p>\n
Some aspects of our culture have seemed ridiculous to us for a long time – like the section of the junk mail catalogues that come in the letterbox, with pages of small appliances that do one specific thing yet take up oodles of space in your home (usually your kitchen). Personally, I feel they are such a waste of space and money. After all, we all need a hotdog warmer, a pancake maker, a pizza oven, a pie maker, a juicer, an electric massager…<\/p>\n
One of the first things my husband noticed when we came home was how “full” our home is. There is just so much stuff. We lived for 3 months in a very sparsely furnished apartment and really didn’t want for much. So why do we need so much stuff here?<\/p>\n
I guess people who move house often go through a good purge when they move. But we haven’t moved in about 10 years, and we didn’t have much stuff then anyway.<\/p>\n
We have lots of things that we haven’t used in years. If we haven’t used it for so long, do we really need it? It may be nice, but its really not necessary. So we have begun a purge. We have a hard rubbish clean up in a few weeks time, where we will put out some furniture. We plan to join OzFreecycle to pass on things to others who might want them, and we plan to chuck out\/recycle a whole lot of other stuff.<\/p>\n
Friends of ours went to live in Scotland for a year about 4 years ago. Before they left, they sold and gave away practically everything they had. They took about 4 suitcases of things\/clothes etc with them, and apart from two bookcases that they left with friends to mind, that was pretty much all they had in the world.<\/p>\n
They said it was wonderfully liberating. Now, I am not expecting that we will get down to only 4 suitcases (!) but we could really do with having a lot less stuff here.<\/p>\n
Has anyone else done this? How did you find it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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